Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-29

kind of riled me clean down to the toes OF
INV boots. Everything had tasted mighty
good before, and l was wondering why
had lost my appetite when noticed q Wo-
man, looking as white as a sheet, make a
break for the side of the ship and hang her
head over for about five minutes.
Something's the matter with that lady"
| remarked to the man l had been talking
to, "and you had better tend to her. while
| run for the doctor"
"Only a little seasick, that's ALL" he
said very cool, and then / knowed what
was coming and tried to work on my imag-
ination and keep it off. l hadn't seen
Mandy for an hour, and had clean forgot
all about her, when the ~chambermaid came
up and told me my wife wanted me down
below. OF Oourse / went, and that going
below got me. In two minutes after had
got into the stateroom, where / found
Mandy q total wreck. ! was a bowling
wilderness, and no congressional funeral or
other official f~estivity ever stirred up my
Innards like l was stirred up for the next
hour. l have been out with the boys q
good many times in the national capital,
and have tumbled over a cOrkscrew and
fell from grace more times than once, rs
most congressman has; but l was never so
profoundly sick at the stOmmick as | was
on that occasion.
In the morning | telt rocky-a good deal
like l did the day 1 got back from the last
Congressional funeral-but l noticed the
boat was steadier, and | felt like there was
room inside of me for about a sack of flour
and a ham of meat. Mandy said she was
feeling better, too, and we got up and ct a
breakfast that almost made us ashamed oil
ourselves. That was the last of our sea-
sickness, for the balance of the trip was II
| fine weather; but we had learned
fully that a mighty little seasickneS goes
a mighty long ways.
The rest of the voyage was about as I'M
interesting as the Senate chamber Is whena
dull Senator has got the floor, and we put
in the remaining ten days talking and
and reading walking the deck, waiting anC
wishing for the land to come in sight.
talked some politics down among thu
steerage passengers, but when | found they
wore going back to Germany to live,
concluded that political education WASH
what they were after, and as they had NJ
votes to pay their tuition with, quit, anC
went back to the main deck.
~
Tuesday morning, the thirteenth day
ont, the steward came banging away at GU
door and told us land was in sight anC
Plymouth, Egland, our stopping place
would soon be reached. We got our clotheS
on in less time than if the house had beer
on fire, and hurried up OIL deck, and wher
| looked at the hills OF good hard, solo
ground, | am free to confess that | neveI
saw so much beauty in plain, ordinary,
common dirt in the whole course of my
existence. | didn't keer whether 1t was
land On which n throne set or not;
didn't keer whether it was an empire
or kingdom or republic; it was lanC
and land, any kind Of land, wa:
was what | was waiting and longing
for. The tears came to Mandy'S eyes a:
she looked, and though we had made
many good friends on the ship, and every
body had been mighty clever TO us, thu
land was what we wanted, and we shoOt
hands all around, and with many au
wiedersehns we got of on the tender tina
came for us, and left the RhTtia prObabl!
forever.
l didn't make a speech, but did asl
the Captain of the tender to shut down tn
safety valve and let her 90 for shore, if sh'
ran ten miles up a hill. He didn't do il
though, but in due time put us off at tn
Plymouth dock, and when we touched
bottom we walked up and down rs prou'
as a pair of colts in a green pasture, an'
thanked the Lord that we had been borl
land animals instead of fish. In my next
will tell you of Plymouth.
Yours truly,
w. Q. WAXEM